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Alex Gazan's CrossFit Games Season Could Be Over
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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.
In today’s edition:
The 2025 HYROX Elite 15 Pro World Champions are…
Why avoiding the hard stuff may be holding you back more than you think.
Alex Gazan’s Games season now hangs in the balance after a car accident.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
She’s 23 and superhuman…but we’re not going to rush her or jeopardize anything. Seven weeks might be pushing it.”
HYROX World Championships — Elite 15 Men and Women
Here are the results from last night’s HYROX Elite 15 World Championships.
Elite 15 Men | Elite 15 Women |
|---|---|
1. Tim Wenisch | 1. Linda Meier |
2. Hunter McIntyre | 2. Joanna Wietrzyk |
3. Dylan Scott | 3. Lauren Weeks |
4. James Kelly | 4. Sinead Bent |
5. Jonathon Wynn | 5. Lucy Procter |
6. Tom Rodgers | 6. Emilie Dahmen |
7. Hidde Weersma | 7. Vivian Tafuto |
8. Alexander Roncevi | 8. Amy Bevilacqua |
9. Beau Wills | 9. Jess Pettrow |
10. Graham Halliday | 10. Melanie Maurer |
11. Rich Ryan | 11. Kate Davey |
12. Pelayo Menendez Fernandez | 12. Ida Mathilde Steensgaard |
13. Tomas Tvrdik | 13. Lauren Griffith |
14. Rylan Schadegg | 14. Seka Arning |
Note: Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Joanna Wietrzyk compete on Saturday, June 14, in the Elite 15 Pro Doubles Women’s race at 7 p.m. CT.
Read more about the World Championship weekend here.
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SPEED READS
💪 🗓️ United Grid League Week 2: The second weekend of the United Grid League kicks off at Valor Fitness in Seminole, FL. Check out the schedule and watch the matches live here.
🎽 👟 CrossFit x Velites Collection: The “Official Footwear and Apparel Partner” of the 2025 CrossFit Games offered a preview of its new CrossFit Games x Velites collection. Check it out and sign up for early access and an exclusive discount!
🏃♀️🚣 HYROX x Gold’s Gym: Gold’s Gym is partnering with HYROX to open its first HYROX Performance Center inside its Little Elm location in Dallas, TX, with plans to expand. Learn more here.
🏃♀️📈 HWPO HYROX: The HWPO HYROX prep track is live today, and it’s built to help you train with purpose. Check it out and start preparing for your first (or next) race now!
ICYMI: Only two spots left and zero room for error — the LCQ is here.
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE
Bring Back the Whiteboard – Why “Showing Up” Matters
Credit: @b.a.w_media / Instagram
We all know the type: staying up late to see the workout posted on Wodify, just to confirm that you'll skip another day with handstand push-ups and ring dips because you're so far from mastering those skills. Why bother showing up?
The issue is that if you keep skipping the things you struggle with, you'll always struggle with them.
The Good Old Days
Back in the day, around 2011, I would show up at the noon CrossFit class with a slightly queasy stomach, unsure of the “torture” I was about to endure for the next hour.
As I walked into the gym, I headed straight to the whiteboard to read the “workout of the day.” Then I looked at the scores from the classes before mine, with each name on the whiteboard accompanied by a time and an “Rx” next to those who were the “elite” of the group.
THINGS TO…
…WATCH
United Grid League Matches This Weekend
The second weekend of the United Grid League kicks off at Valor Fitness in Seminole, FL. Check out the schedule and…
…LEARN
The Best Bar Muscle-Up Cues
This is essential viewing for CrossFit coaches teaching bar muscle-ups. Zach Pine (CF-L4) offers a detailed coaching breakdown and demonstrates effective progressions, cueing techniques, and class management strategies for one of CrossFit's coolest gymnastics movements.
…KNOW
The Connection Between Squat Mobility and Knee Pain
The squat is one of the most essential and commonly tested movements in CrossFit, but for many athletes, consistent, pain-free depth remains a challenge. Give this article by Zach Long, Doctor of Physical Therapy and the founder of TheBarbellPhysio.com, a look for more.
…EAT
The Case for Flavonoids
A study that tracked 120,000 people for more than a decade found that those who ate a wide range of flavonoid-rich foods — mainly tea, apples, dark chocolate, and berries — cut their risk of all-cause mortality by 16%. The key is to aim for 500mg of flavonoids per day, or, as the study’s co-lead said, the equivalent of “two cups of tea.”
CROSSFIT GAMES
Alex Gazan’s Games Season in Jeopardy After Car Accident Leaves Her With Fractured Fibula
Credit: @alexgazan_ / Instagram
On Sunday, Alex Gazan was celebrating qualifying for her fourth CrossFit Games after winning the Northern California Classic In-Person Qualifying Event in Sacramento, CA.
On Tuesday, she was feeling lucky just to be alive and unsure whether she would be able to compete at the Games in August.
What Happened?
On June 10, Gazan and her husband were involved in a serious car accident during a road trip in California. Gazan sustained a small fracture in her fibula and wrote on Instagram that she is experiencing swelling in her leg and had “glass where glass should never be.”
“Hoping for a speedy recovery and getting back to doing what I love soon,” she added.
Whether her recovery will be swift enough for her to compete at the CrossFit Games in seven weeks and the World Fitness Project Tour Event II in 11 weeks remains uncertain, Gazan’s coach, Justin Cotler, told the Morning Chalk Up.
“Everything is in wait-and-see mode,” Cotler told the Morning Chalk Up. While he said Gazan would do everything she could to heal in time, he doesn’t want her to compete until she is 100%.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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🎂Happy birthday (6/14) to Nicole Aucoin and Rasmus Andersen.
🎁Happy birthday (6/15) to Cameron Bucek and Emily Bridgers.
💪Congrats to CrossFitter and Grid League athlete Syd Witter on this 215-kilo/475-pound deadlift PR.
🔥Semifinals athlete Nico Bedon makes this 158-kilo/350-pound power clean look breezy!
🙌You know we love a muscle-up compilation; here’s another one from Bianca of Brazil. Way to go, Bianca!